The Awareness Center closed. We operated from April 30, 1999 - April 30, 2014. This site is being provided for educational & historical purposes.
We were the international Jewish Coalition Against Sexual Abuse/Assault (JCASA); and were dedicated to ending sexual violence in Jewish communities globally. We did our best to operate as the make a wish foundation for Jewish survivors of sex crimes. In the past we offered a clearinghouse of information, resources, support and advocacy.

Monday, April 15, 2013

Honoring Frank L. Fitzpatrick

April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month

Honoring Frank L. Fitzpatrick

By day Frank Fitzpatrick has been an insurance adjuster, private investigator, high school band director, composer and performer, forklift operator, grade school music teacher and a choir teacher for mentally challenged children. Yet in his free-time Frank does what he can to help other survivors of clergy abuse heal.

Frank was sexually abuse by Father James R. Porter starting in the early 1960s. As part of his own personal healing process, Frank armed with a tape recorder confronted his offender back in 1989 and had a telephone conversation with his offender. He then went on to track down other survivors of the same offender. To date he has been in contact with over 200 individuals who were also molested by Fr. Porter.

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Survivors ARE Heroes!

The Awareness Center believes ALL survivors of sex crimes should be given yellow ribbons to wear proudly.

Survivors of sexual violence (as adults and/or as a child) are just as deserving of a yellow ribbon as the men and women of our armed forces, who have been held captive as hostages or prisoners of war.

Survivors of sexual violence have been forced to learn how to survive, being held captive not by foreigners, but mostly by their own family members, teachers, camp counselors, coaches babysitters, rabbis, cantors or other trusted authority figures.

For these reasons ALL survivors of sexual violence should be seen as heroes!